phonograph

Ms. Stoneman made her mark in 1957 with her driving instrumental version of “Lonesome Road Blues,” which made her the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.

He was worried that it would look like a phonograph needle and cement the idea that the building was designed to look like a stack of records.

Each spacecraft carries a golden record: a phonograph that includes greetings from languages around the world and a host of musical excerpts.

There were newfangled inventions: player pianos, phonographs and nickelodeons.

Poetry has been a part of recorded sound ever since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, showing off his creation by recording “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on tinfoil.